Monthly Archives: October 2005

$2.73 million verdict The plaintiffs, who were the 49.5 percent shareholders of the defendant company, and the former president of the company, sued the defendant company and its majority shareholder for breach of fiducairy duty and breach of contract. The ...

A Superior Court judge in Hampden County paved the way for a top Cathedral High School varsity golfer to tee off in a state championship golf tournament from which she was barred because of gender, according to The Springfield Republican. ...

The Land Court ruled that a zoning change adopted by the Amherst Town Meeting in 2002 is invalid, null and void and called the meeting’s action a case of “spot zoning,” according to The Springfield Republican. Leigh F. Andrews and ...

Judge Phyllis J. Broker has been appointed first justice of the Woburn District Court and Judge H. Gregory Williams has been named first justice of the Edgartown District Court. The appointments were announced by District Court Chief Justice Lynda M. ...

State Treasurer Timothy P. Cahill’s office made a $78,000 payment to the top lawyer in the Lottery Commission in 2003 as part of a confidential settlement shortly after Cahill took office, Treasury officials with knowledge of the deal told The ...